Principal Consultant Treasury

GARRETT A. KLEIN

Location: Chicago, IL Mobile: 312-***-**** Email: **************@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Garrett Klein is a Senior Manager at KPMG with over twelve years of financial services and consulting experience in several domains including: Capital Markets, Banking Finance & Operations, Liquidity, Treasury Services, Payment Solutions, and Business Transformation. Garrett is viewed as an experienced advisor to senior executives where he combines a unique blend of industry and consulting experience to implement new processes and deliver transformational initiatives for clients. He demonstrates an uncanny ability to move effortlessly in any environment, lead integrated teams, interface with multiple personality types, and position companies for long term success. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

KPMG, Senior Manager April 2021 - Current

• Payments Transformation (Top 5 U.S. Bank):

• Facilitated solution architecture / design discussions to accelerate technology delivery of a multi-year strategic payments program geared toward redefining the client experience across the Bank’s Move Money products.

• Managed overall program execution to replace fragmented payment experiences with a consistent, easy-to-use offering across online / mobile channels, reduce dependency on third parties, and enable emerging networks for payments and transfers (e.g., Zelle, RTP, RFP).

• Post-Merger Business Integration (Top 5 U.S. Bank):

• Led the integration of a newly acquired healthcare payment company into the Bank’s merchant business functions.

• Defined the product strategy to introduce new client solutions into the Bank, generate leads for cross-sell opportunities, and develop both tactical and long-term sales plans.

• Created pricing strategies to support revenue growth and continuity with the Bank’s broader global transaction services healthcare objectives.

Capco, Principal Consultant November 2017 - April 2021

• Treasury Change Management (Large Government Sponsored Entity):

• Established a new self-organization Treasury Operations Change Management team, responsible for project coordination including planning/implementing content across all payment workflows, while ensuring that security, risk, and compliance requirements are met to support the Single Security Market Readiness and Payment Fraud programs.

• Completed current state analyses of 120+ payment processes and systems detailing process and technology impacts to inform an enterprise business process reengineering initiative.

• Created a treasury operations data strategy that identified, classified, and mapped 2,000+ data elements across two divisions to ensure compliance with a federal housing industry advisory bulletin.

• Prepayment Model Technical Implementation (Large U.S. Bank):

• Managed a capital market workstream consisting of 30 technical implementation specialists to replace BlackRock prepayment models with an internal Value at Risk (VAR) methodology for 7 mortgage securities products.

• Led the preparation of detailed design specifications for system changes which included the development and implementation of technology enhancement plans, go-live implementation oversight, business requirement documentation, execution of technology reviews, and oversight of UAT testing activities.

• Sales and Personnel Development

• Led more than 10 RFP/RFI responses generating over $3 million in annual revenue.

• Provided thought leadership through the creation of several point of views on capital markets, unsecured lending, banking and payments, venture capital business models, and digital transformation. JPMorgan Chase & Co., Commercial Bank April 2014 - November 2017

• Middle Market Treasury Sales

• Met with bank clients to understand treasury cash management structures and objectives and recommend cash flow optimization strategies, including ways to streamline financial processes.

• Worked closely with healthcare clients to ensure proper alignment of strategic treasury solutions and executed weekly process optimizations reviews to help simplify cash management by allowing insurers to manage all bills, invoices, and payments electronically through one processer.

• Worked closely with specialized middle market groups to improve working capital with integrated receivable solutions that included a variety of electronic and digital payment options (US ACH and wire, lockbox, multicurrency ACH).

• Treasury Controller

• Managed the bank’s investment portfolio by developing low-cost strategies to protect the value of the investment portfolio in a volatile rate environment and executing on yield enhancement strategies.

• Interacted with Treasury and Business leadership, Controllers, Global Treasury, Liquidity Risk Oversight, and other related areas to obtain, understand, and analyze information in relation to balance sheet and liquidity implications for the bank. Crowe Horwath, Senior Consultant January 2013 - April 2014

• Led a 3-consultant team to conduct risk management reviews for State, County, and/or Local government clients.

• Demonstrated problem solving and critical thinking skills to quickly identify internal control deficiencies, evaluate their risk implications, and drew appropriate conclusions to best advise clients. Booz Allen Hamilton, Senior Consultant Summer 2009 - January 2013

• Administered 30 grants totaling over $50 million using indirect cost rates, A-133 federal audits, cost allocation plans, and OMB circulars.

• Provided grants management and fiscal support for the Department of Health and Human Services by maintaining a database to generate Financial Awards and to clear annual audits for grant funds in the amount greater than $500,000. EDUCATION

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana August 2006 - May 2010

• Bachelor of Science, Accounting and Management; Minor, Finance

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